of seventeen, became a sub-editor of the Labore Civil and Military Gazette.In 1887, he published Plain Tales from the Hills, a collection of stories about India. During the next two years, he brought out, in slim, paper-backed volumes, Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White, Willie Winkie, which sold at a rupee apiece. These stories, along with the unforgettable Soldiers Three, all writen before Kipling reached the age of twenty-four, revealed a new master of fiction.From 1887 to 1889, Kipling traveled to India, China, Japan, and America, from which countries he sent abck letters to his newspaper in Lahore. Reaching London in 1890, he found himself already famous. His first novel, the Light that Failed, was published that year, having first appeared in Lippincotts Magazine.Before finally settling in England, Rudyard Kipling lived in the United States for four years. In 1892, he was married to Caroline Starr Balestier, with whose brother, Wolcott Balestier, he collaborated on Naulahka (1891), a novel about our American Indians.It was during his stay in America that Kipling became interested in the Gloucester fishermen and put aside his work on Kim to begin Captains Courageous.Kiplings best-known and most popular books, in addition to The Light that Failed, are The Jungle Book and The Other Jungle Book (1894-95), Captains Courageous (1897), and Kim (1901), considered by many critics to be the best picture of India ever written.His most popular poem and he wrote many poems was The Recessional, written for Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In 1907, he received the Nobel award for literature.He died in London on January 18, 1936, at the age of seventy.I had heard about Captains Courageous from somewhere, but could not recall where. I continued searching the shelves for other books, but felt drawn back. Then I read the author. I thought it was neat that I had heard of him. With that I finally decided ...
